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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-03

SF @ COL

Home plate: Ron Kulpa

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, COL
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Ron Kulpa called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Cavanaugh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Karros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Rafael Devers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drew Cavanaugh — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: TJ Rumfield — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Troy Johnston vs JT Brubaker
  2. 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Tovar vs Ryan Walker
  3. 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Bryce Eldridge vs Ryan Feltner

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Bryce Eldridge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Cavanaugh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Rafael Devers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6TJ Rumfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Edouard Julien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.